"Encourage innocent amusement."

-- Joseph Addison

#Amusement Quotes #Innocent Quotes

“The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.”

Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.117, Penguin
“The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.”

Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2012). “Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China”, p.78, UNC Press Books
“I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.”
“Don't be mad cuz I'm doing me better than you doing you.”
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Source : Rumi (2017). “Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
“I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly.”
“To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”
“Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.”

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